i installed xampp. [quote]Its not possible from the code you have supplied to say whether the $text variables are either an array or part of the database. There is no association between $text and data in your database. There would be a couple of lines in there after the database connection and database selection to select data. Something like:- $somequery = "Select......"; $somequeryresult("$somequery"); $text = mysql_fetch_array($somequeryresult); to give an indication that the $text variables contain your database records. Nor is there an association between $text and it being an array containing data. There is no array initialisation. Something like:- $text = array($variable1, $variable2,.....$variableN)). Quite frankly it doesnt look like the $text values do anything at all. What does this code do when you run it? You have included a screen grab of what the page is supposed to look like when viewed in a browser but from the code you've posted I just dont see how the code and output match up.[/quote] The screen grab is what results from the code. for example [b]=$TEXT['cds-head'] [/b] shows as [b]CD Collection (Example for PHP+MySQL+PDF Class)[/b] What I think is that $TEXT is some kind of global array. Going though some of the files, I found several instances of $TEXT[' '], i just haven't been able to find where the array is taking the information from. And i don't think it is the database because i checked it an in this case it has only one table with 4 fields. It does look as it has been initialized somewhere else, in this case the filename is cds.php and the $TEXT values are ['cds-head'], ['cds-text1']....., and i have another file called biorythim.php which is another example and there's also some $TEXT values like ['bio-head'], ['bio-ok']. I used to program in ASP and there were session variables, im wondering if $TEXT is something like that . anyways thanks for the help.